{"id":9125,"date":"2021-07-06T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T15:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=9125"},"modified":"2021-07-06T12:47:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T17:47:04","slug":"olame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=9125","title":{"rendered":"OLAME (but not really)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hey! Nintendo finally revealed the long-rumoured Switch Pro today!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nintendo Switch - OLED Model - Announcement Trailer\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4mHq6Y7JSmg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Only, it&#8217;s <em>not<\/em> the Switch Pro. It&#8217;s just a regular Switch with some shinier bells and whistles. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, the bigger OLED screen, better speakers, proper kickstand, and (paltry) increase to internal memory are nice upgrades. I have no problem with these. They&#8217;re cool, little value-adds made to entice the three people who are still on the fence about purchasing a Switch. But they won&#8217;t materially improve my existing Nintendo Switch experience, so I&#8217;m thinking I&#8217;m going to skip this new model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(I say that now, but just wait for when October rolls around and I post the inevitable selfie of me in line to pick up my pre-ordered Switch OLED.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While looking into what this hardware revision really adds, I&#8217;ve read a couple articles (and a lot of comments) that expressed surprise that this is not in fact the Switch Pro that rumormongers have been hyping up for well over two years now. And to that I say: For real? Did you really expect all of that nonsense to be true? It seems like a lot of the internet likes to put blind faith in the ramblings of &#8220;tech insiders&#8221; that don&#8217;t actually have a hot clue. And while this happens all the time for different things, this is just the first time that I&#8217;m smh-ing hard enough to feel like I need to write about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In general, there really shouldn&#8217;t be any surprise here. Nintendo doesn&#8217;t exactly have a long history of mid-generation power upgrades. There was the New 3DS, but I&#8217;m pretty sure that&#8217;s it. They&#8217;re all about those bells and whistles. This is as &#8220;typical Nintendo&#8221; as it comes, so I really don&#8217;t get why anyone is surprised in the least at this reveal. Oh well!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey! Nintendo finally revealed the long-rumoured Switch Pro today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9125"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9128,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9125\/revisions\/9128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}